Endless list of favourite female characters: Zoya Nazyalensky (the Grishaverse)
“Zoya,” Alina said, drawing her back to the present, to her fear, to this wretched place. “You are not alone in this. And he can be beaten.”
“He is immortal.”
“Then why did he flinch when you brought down the storm?”
“It did nothing!”
“He sees something in you that frightens him. He always has. Why do you think he worked so hard to make us doubt ourselves? He was afraid of what we might become.”
We are the dragon. We do not lie down to die. Some tiny fraction of the fear in her receded.― Rule of Wolves, Ch. 17.














